Thursday, October 29, 2015

Following a packed and sweaty set at Americana Fest, Kingsley Flood is
capping off its ambitious and productive year with its largest capacity
NYC and DC shows to date and a third EP release with ‘The Good Fight’
out November 20. The three EPs total thirteen songs released in 2015 and the band is also preparing for a 2016 full-length release.

Bandleader Naseem Khuri continues to explore themes of individual and
societal change in our cities, and his own tendencies to talk a big game
and take little action; ‘The Good Fight’ deepens that exploration,
narrowing the focus on the band’s hometowns of Boston and Washington, DC
and pushing the band to some of its most epic music to date.” Driven by
tremolo’d guitar, the title track examines Khuri’s reluctant acceptance
of an evolving city and its gentrification. “We ought to get mad, we
ought to save our souls, but the new guy’s got what I need.” He doesn’t
let up on “On My Mind,” crying outrage at injustice while shouting “I
can write a check from this couch and yet I can’t reach my pen.” The
spaghetti western guitar line of “Change You” introduces sharply
observed stories from a Boston bar Khuri visited all too often, where
the regulars talk about their big plans and leave it at that. The store
owner at the center of the anthemic, alt.country “Good Old Wind” rejects
the “new wind blowing” into the town where Khuri grew up near Boston.